Search - Harriet Tubman :: Treasure Hunt for the Prototype

Harriet Tubman Strikes Again!

11/27/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"A live followup to their phenomenol debut, "I Am a Man," this CD finds the dynamic power trio of Brandon Ross (guitar), Melvin Gibbs (bass), and J.T. Lewis (drums) playing some more extended compositions. Ross is one of the best kept secrets in the downtown New York jazz scene. A long time collaborator with Henry Threadgill, he has amazing versatility and plays with a uniques style that may remind some guitar fans of early Bill Frisell. This band is your only chance to hear this phenomenal guitarist really stretch out. Don't miss it!"

Music, For Real!

Nava Broden | Louisiana | 10/10/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This CD reminds me of everything I am tempted to forget about where music came from, and where it can go, when it is performed with skill, intensity, range, and intelligence. These musicians are kicking open the "box" in which mainstream "marketeers" would cheerily keep me coralled.
Not since the glory days of Led Zeppelin, Cream, Tony Williams Lifetime, and early Weather Report, (all of which I missed, but was born to discover) has music traveled so fiercely and freely, careening and winding into open vistas and tumultuous chasms, and still arriving home, unscathed, in time for dinner! We need more bands like this one.
The music is eclectic without being a "variety pack". Coming from an inner originality that condones the varietal nature of being human. The songs sound like you and me: how we talk, love, laugh, cry, seek, find, win and lose...with conviction and determination, without being didactic. This music doesn't tell me how to relate to it! I'm free to choose. An unusual quality in these days of endless stylistic tagging, and posing. Can I just decide for myself if you da real ?!?!
If you think Hip Hop is what's "real", time to hit "scan" on your radio...and find out what it means to adopt the name of one of America's great heroines to ply your craft under! Do that and know what we haven't been told."